Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58d2d07fd06ab56f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-27 18:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 5e464e51d7044950a0a7a77b987fab0c SHA-1: 40d9618f596b1216f467372a1c18fa04ee7be9b8 SHA-256: 58d2d07fd06ab56f40e8ca826b0e44d4f2481a85011f5e662e8f2cd061d2f8ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various external domains, many of which are hosted on disposable or compromised platforms. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+word+that+begins+with+e PDF link annotation
    • https://www.prshots.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusobogiposunegeluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17862970917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/86585954397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/ligutanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e415b71159---15581501866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamhelios.vn/luutru/files/fogizojogifemazafofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/jodobazometadizonulujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/16428486472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/4850816797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebodyclubonline.com/userfiles/file/62668243853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/43674364586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briztravel.com/upload/files/57406192353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8725c4ca82586622da889baf9090e66f/76233724309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeeing.com/userfiles/files/filolidovipesunipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021091320121273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613130ef457a8---38972802574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141189f8dd46---vogekuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-1.ru/userfiles/files/danawisejelimiwuwarajovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcareerclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/tiwugibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oecschool.com/userfiles/file/23626030558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_F7970A1CF205A895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342a31bd536---53931068590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b52d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB52D 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 6d391a25146c8d58ac9c6ca05282e5d187b9e58d920a57911b3f950bbc4aa53d
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE593 18444 bytes
SHA-256: fa1bbe76ec47e6c72087b8e4f699fc6cf5d3c49685ac25df0be3b8d06d367ace